Wild Woman Clarissa Quotes

#1. With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#2. Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

Thiruvalluvar

#3. A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#4. The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#5. The "male gaze," as a shaper of my life's choices, is largely incidental. Gender

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#7. There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#8. Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#9. We lose things.
And then we choose things.
And there are Louis's
And there are Georges-
Well, Louis's
And George.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#11. Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#12. When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

Florence Welch

#13. My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter.

Ralph Goings

#14. When the personal soul life is burnt to ashes, a woman loses the vital treasure and begins to get dry boned as Death. In her unconscious, the desire for the red shoes, a wild joy, not only continues, it swells and floods, and eventually staggers to its feet and takes over, ferocious and famished.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#15. Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

Richard Dawkins

#16. Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#18. Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#19. As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic babies and perhaps also human ones, the rhythms of solitude, of play, of rest, of sexuality, and of the hunt.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#20. While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#21. God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Miguel De Cervantes

#22. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#23. Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top or just make it through tomorrow, whether you be spicy or somber, regal or roughshod - the Wild Woman belongs to you. She belongs to all women. To

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#24. I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

Robin Thicke

#25. When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Steven Soderbergh